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teratologist

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teratologist
[ter′ətol′əjist]
one who specializes in the causes and effects of congenital anomalies and developmental abnormalities.


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He is also (and pertinently) the grandson of the famous French surgeon and teratologist, Ambroise Pare, whose Des monstres we do have in English.
Most teratologists in fact believe that after exposure to exogenous insults during the preimplantation period, the embryo either dies or survives unharmed to term because this gestational phase is considered to be an "all-or-nothing" period (Giavini et al.
Kimmel, a teratologist at the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.
 
 
 
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